Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having an easygoing, cheerful disposition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a good disposition; naturally mild in temper; easily acquiescent.
- Synonyms Gracious, Kind, etc. See benignant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a perpetual kind disposition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked; amiable; cheerful; not taking offense easily. Opposite of
ill-natured . - adj. to one's own liking or feelings or nature; pleasing; -- of people. Opposite of
disagreeable .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having an easygoing and cheerful disposition
Examples
“Foreign Secretary William Hague also used the term "good-natured" to describe the talks, telling ITV1 television: "They get on very well.”
“It will therefore come as no surprise to learn that I blame the recent eruption of what the rugby authorities used to term "good-natured horseplay" in our major cities on one thing – the breakdown of the sort of traditional sporting partnership – Trueman and Statham, Beardsley and Lineker, Bruce and Pallister – that once brought stability to the life of youngsters everywhere.”
The Guardian: What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
“When he finally looked in her direction, there was an expression of good-natured sternness on his face.”
“Another Committee of Fourteen investigator in 1914 observed the loose behavior of women workers in a restaurant: “They were putting on their aprons, combing their hair, powdering their noses, . . . all the while tossing back and forth to each other, apparently in a spirit of good-natured comradeship, the most vile epithets that I had ever heard emerge from the lips of a human being.””
“I felt that on some level she was incompetent and slow, but she was very good-natured.”
“A fast paced game of passion and pageantry played by colorful and attractive women, chock full of good-natured violence and brimming with personality.”
“So we not only got compelling performances, we also got lots of good-natured back-and-forths between the coaches, who often had to jockey for the hopefuls they mutually favored to choose them.”
“Most notable for the casting surrounding the bland couple — Wills is played by an American with a full head of hair, if you were curious — which includes Victor Garber as a stuffy Prince Charles, Jean Smart as a good-natured Camilla talk about your designing women! and Jane Alexander as an unusually robust, tall Queen Elizabeth, playing yard darts and Wii to endear herself to the commoner who would be princess.”
“He's a cheerful, good-natured person who knew he had done nothing wrong," Mr. Gordon said.”
“It's not that I'm so good-natured that I don't act moody and irritable (just ask my sister) or that I'm immune to getting defensive or crabby (just ask my husband).”
The Wall Street Journal: Is Fighting With a Spouse a Sign of Failure?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘good-natured’.
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EN - compound adjectives ending in "-ed"
one-armed, strong-armed, red-bearded, wide-bodied, bare-breasted, double-breasted, black-eyed, dark-eyed, green-eyed, pop-eyed, red-eyed, slit-eyed and 211 more...
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
t-test, O-ring, B-grade, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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That's nice.
nice, kind, agreeable, good-natured, pleasing, kind-hearted, sweet, simnel, gracious, percaline, manzanilla, kincob and 8 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Pseudorandom encore
A couple of years ago on Wordie, I made the list Pseudorandom words. Let's see how the Wordnik random words compare: no panvocalics, more adverbs, more hyphenated words (or maybe I excluded them th...
appeasable, remigrant, trijunction, strawberry-mark, usurpatory, mannery, episcopally, encrown, boutade, yux, unpunishable, fortifiable and 88 more...
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Sheldon
This strange person, who I have the uttermost pleasure and joy in knowing, is described by the following list of words. Each word is no doubt perfect - and sometimes literal - in the likeness and a...
fun, lanky, turtle, good-natured, tenacious, charismatic, spirited, racy, brilliant, quick-witted, intellectual, musical and 3 more...
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hernesheir Opposite of ill-humored, if not ill-natured. Feb 19, 2011